8-letter words containing l, a, g
- game law — a law enacted for the preservation of game, as by restricting the number and kinds of game that may be taken and by designating periods of the year when specified game may be taken.
- gamefowl — A gamebird.
- gamelans — Plural form of gamelan.
- gamelike — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gameplay — The tactical aspects of a computer game, such as its plot and the way it is played, as distinct from the graphics and sound effects.
- gangland — the world of organized crime; criminal underworld.
- ganglial — Of or pertaining to a ganglion.
- ganglier — Comparative form of gangly.
- gangling — to move awkwardly or ungracefully: A tall, stiff-jointed man gangled past.
- ganglio- — ganglion
- ganglion — Anatomy. a mass of nerve tissue existing outside the central nervous system. any of certain masses of gray matter in the brain, as the basal ganglia.
- ganglord — The leader of a gang, especially a criminal organization.
- gangnail — a particular arrangement of nails on a metal plate, used as a connecting piece in strong timber joints
- gantlets — Plural form of gantlet.
- gantline — a rope rove through a single block hung from a mast, funnel, etc., as a means of hoisting workers, tools, flags, or the like.
- gantlope — gauntlet2 .
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- gap-fill — In language teaching, a gap-fill test is an exercise in which words are removed from a text and replaced with spaces. The learner has to fill each space with the missing word or a suitable word.
- gapingly — In a gaping way.
- garbling — Present participle of garble.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- gargling — Present participle of gargle.
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- garishly — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- garlands — Plural form of garland.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- garofalo — Galofalo.
- gas coal — a soft coal suitable for the production of gas.
- gas laws — ideal gas law.
- gas lift — Gas lift is a method in which gas is injected into the production tubing (= tubes through which hydrocarbons flow to the surface) to allow liquids to enter the wellbore at a higher flow rate.
- gas well — a well from which natural gas is obtained.
- gasalier — A gas-powered chandelier.
- gaselier — Alt form gasalier.
- gasfield — a subterranean area where natural gas is found
- gaslight — light produced by the combustion of illuminating gas.
- gasolene — gasoline.
- gasolier — a chandelier furnished with gaslights.
- gasoline — a volatile, flammable liquid mixture of hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, and used as fuel for internal-combustion engines, as a solvent, etc.
- gasteral — Of or pertaining to the stomach.
- gastfull — dismal; dreary
- gastrula — a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.
- gate leg — a leg attached to a hinged frame that can be swung out to support a drop leaf.
- gatefold — foldout (def 1).
- gauchely — In a gauche manner.
- gaullism — a political movement in France led by Charles de Gaulle.
- gaullist — a supporter of the political principles of Charles Charles de Gaulle.
- gaultier — Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). born 1952, French fashion designer
- gaumless — gormless.